Rumiana Yotova is an Assistant Professor in International Law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Cambridge and a Fellow at Gonville & Caius College. Her research interests lie in the areas of general international law, particularly its sources and the responsibility of States, the settlement of international disputes, and the nascent field of international biomedical law. She works on the regulation of the human genome in the face of new technologies from the perspectives of human rights law, environmental law and the law on global commons. Rumiana practices as an Academic Door Tenant at Thomas More Chambers.

Rumiana completed her PhD in Cambridge under the supervision of Prof. James Crawford. Prior to this, she spent time at the Secretariat of the Permanent Court of Arbitration, the European Commission in Brussels and the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea. She was a founder and editor-in-chief of the Cambridge Journal of International and Comparative Law.